European Capacity Building Initiative

Mailings Archive

23 February 2024

  • Oxford Martin School hosts post-COP 28 Debrief and Panel Discussion
  • New Publications
  • Climate Solidarity Side Event at COP 28 co-hosted by OCP/ecbi

2 December 2023

  • A journey in memory of Pete Betts and Saleemul Huq
  • New Policy Paper Discusses Innovative Funding Sources and Response Tools for Loss and Damage
  • Updated Pocket Guide to the Paris Agreement Now Available
  • Kushlan Lecture at John Cabot University in Rome
  • In Memoriam Saleemul Huq (1952-2023): Some Personal Reminiscences
  • Presentation on International Climate Solidarity Alliance at the Ministry of Finance, Antigua and Barbuda
  • Letter of Appreciation from Vanuatu on Innovative Funding Sources for Loss and Damage
  • ecbi Policy Paper Focuses on Operationalising a Share of Proceeds for Adaptation for the Voluntary Carbon Market
  • ecbi Director presents on Innovative Loss & Damage finance sources at Sciences Po/Paris

3 October 2023

  • Kishan Kumarsingh to Head ecbi Fellowship and Trust-building Programme
  • 2023 Oxford Seminar Discusses Global Stocktake, Mitigation Work Programme, and Climate Finance Ahead of COP 28
  • ecbi Discussion Note highlights key longer-term role of synthetic aviation fuels in achieving net-zero aviation emissions by 2050

18 July 2023

  • IPI/OCP Event Focuses on Capitalising the L&D Fund
  • 2023 ecbi Bonn Seminar Focuses on Art. 2.1.c., Global Stocktake, MWP
  • Presentation to Transitional Committee Members on ecbi Policy Brief on Innovative Funding Sources and Response Tools for Loss and Damage
  • ecbi Director Presents at High-Level Champions Event in Bonn
  • ICSLs Referenced in International Peace Institute Publication
  • ecbi Director Presents at Meeting on Enhancing Energy Efficient of Indian MSMEs
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3 April 2023

  • Support for New Funding Arrangements for Loss and Damage Response
  • ecbi Assesses COP27 Key Outcomes in New Report
  • ecbi Publishes Annual Report Covering April 2021–December 2022
  • Former Pakistani Climate Change Minister calls for Share of Proceeds from the VCM to cover L&D Response
  • OCP/ecbi Submission to COP 28 and CMA 5: Views on topics for 2nd Glasgow Dialogue and workshops referred to in paragraph 7(a) of Decision -/CP.27 -/CMA.4
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8 January 2023

  • New Year’s Message from the ecbi Director
  • Chilean Environment Minister sends Letter of Appreciation to Professor Benito Müller
  • Professor Saleemul Huq on Nature's List of 10 Who Shaped Science in 2022
  • New Note on Loss and Damage Funding Arrangements
  • Quo Vadis COP Jamboree?
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15 November 2022

  • News from COP 27
  • 2022 Oxford Seminar
  • Opinion Piece on Loss & Damage Finance: Time to Respond!
  • ecbi Director presents at SciencesPo Seminar and holds informal meetings in Paris
  • Voluntary Carbon Markets' Credibility in Question Over Support for Adaptation
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24 October 2022

  • OCP/ecbi Publishes Conceptual Analysis of the Global Goal on Adaptation
  • Two New Notes on Loss and Damage Finance
  • ecbi Pocket Guide Sheds Light on Article 6
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25 August 2022

  • The Press on SOPA as a Core Carbon Principle of the Voluntary Carbon Market
  • SOPA added to the proposed IC-VCM Core Carbon Principles
  • OCP/ecbi Input to the IC-VCM Consultation on Core Carbon Principles
  • A Share of Proceeds for Adaptation (SOPA) in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM): A new OCP/ecbi Discussion Note
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5 April 2022

  • OCP/ecbi publishes new discussion note on a share of proceeds for adaptation in the voluntary carbon market
  • ecbi hosts webinar on COP26 and the year ahead
  • Letter of appreciation from Minister Simonetta Sommaruga to Professor Benito Müller
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23 November 2021

  • Denmark confirms funding for Phase V of the ecbi Fellowship and Trust- building Programme
  • The Common Time Frame Has Landed! In an OCP blog post, Professor Benito Müller, assesses the Glasgow COP26 decision on CTF
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